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"Perhaps I'm hard to please

When I was younger

I didn't much care what I ate or drank or

smoked. But nowadays I take my pleas-

ures, not sadly but seriously. I suppose you

would call me faddy. I hate to be put off with second-

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best, no matter what it is. I won't eat a peach unless it is English. If I order caviare it must be Beluga.

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You see what I mean about whisky.

While I can obtain a whisky as soft

and smooth as a fine liqueur,

why on earth should I be

put off with anything less

than White Horse? I

admit that perhaps I am

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hard to please - but take it from me, it pays."

WHITE HORSE

THE CHINA MAIL, JANU.

ROYAL NAVY'S 740

Strongest Air Arm In World

Further details of the Admiralty's four-year plan for the development of the Fleet Air Arm are now available.

Expansion of this branch of the Navy is to be on a far greater scale than is generally realised.

Although the avowed object is the creation of a Naval flying service "second to none, both in num- bers and efficiency, when the present plan and the supplementary programmes which are expected to follow have fully matured, Britain may possess the most formidable naval air force in existence.

Eventually a chain of aerodromes the maximum. It is only in regard under purely naval control may be to mechanics that difficulties are established, not only in Great foreseen, owing to the comparative- Britain itself but at strategic ly sudden and occasioned by the points on inter-Empire lines of general rearmament programme. communication. To the six large Hence the Admiralty's call for as aircraft carriere authorised since many mechanics as it can get.

Applicants must be between 17% 1934, with a total capacity of about 400 'planes, others will be added in and 25, and of British nationality, future building programmes. the sons of British-born parents. At the same time, the best of Service is seven years on the active

in the reserve. Pay aircraft our present carriers, such as the list and five Furious, Courageous, Glorious, and prospects are equal, if not Eagle and Hermes, as well as the superior, to those in shore trades, account is taken seaplane carrier Albatross, recent-especially when

WHISKY y acquired from Austrilia, have of the fact that kit, food, living

You can tell it blindfold!

Sole. "gents for South China: Jardine Matheson & Co. Ltd.

Here's Luck!

EWO

BEER

Bringing Up Father

OH-DAUGHTER- HERE COMES JIGGS-WE MUST PRETEND WE ARE HAPPY-YOU JUST : PRETEND YOU ARE 'PHONING SOMEONE AND THAT WE ARE SO HAPPY WE AREN'T INTERESTED IN. ANY.. SOCIAL AFFAIRS

been or will be modernised. Tos quarters, medical and dental treat- gether these ships can take about ment are all free, and that a mar- 175 aircraft to sea.

ringe allowance is granted in cer- tain conditions.

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CATAPULT 'PLANES

battleships Further, all

and cruisers built, building and

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STEADY SUPPLY OF PILOTS

"An adequate supply of pilots

will probably

be

means.

Perhaps mark let spokesman, subject the

ca

the battleshi as a vital fa seaborne tre

THREA

It is no eign Power carrier with ment

as a

modernised will be equipped to and observers

as and when required, M

catapult 'planes into the air, the available total of these aircraft being ap- drawn in part from serving officers proximately 165. In due course, and ratings of the Royal Navy, therefore, the Navy should have and in greater numbers from the something like 740 ship-borne air-short service Air Branch recently craft, all in the firstline category instituted. Entries for this branch and backed by adequate reserves. are coming along in satisfactory This total' does not include the numbers, and any day of the week flying boats and other short-based a group of young men of promis- aircraft, assigned to naval co-opera- ing type may be seen at the tion, which still remain under Air Admiralty, waiting to be interview- Ministry control. In unofficialed with a view to obtaining com- Naval circles the hope is express-missions in the Air Branch..

Past criticisms of the Admiralty ed that all aircraft designed for

work at sea will sooner or later on the score of its alleged lack of come under Admiralty jurisdiction. enthusiasm for air power have no To man this gigantic force of point to-day. The Navy has, in definitely "*air- aeronaval units many, thousands fact, become

of extra pilots, observers and minded,” and its attainment of the mechanics are needed. The official finest and most powerful air arm figures of 10,000 as the ultimate in existence is now only a ques- establishment is not necessarily, tion of time and of

YES-MRS. VAN TRUCKEN – NO -I'M SORRY-BUT MOTHER ́AND I ARE TOO BUSY TO GO TO ANY MUSICALE-AND WE LOVE OUR HOME TOO MUCH TO EVEN THINK OF.

GOING OUT-.

DAUGHTER-TELL HER THAT

I DROPPED OUT OF THE LADIES. SOCIAL CLUB. AS IT BORED

ME TO DEATH LISTENING TO ( RICH PEOPLE

TALK-

ways and

AUXI more

of petrol R.A.C.of

of public extraordi

25b.p 146.p

10 b.

Compare t

able on ca compare

provide a Vauxhall economy.

HOW

HAVI

FIVE